Why do so many of the statements politicians and entertainers are making about Trump’s latest debacle begin with “As a parent, I’m not okay with these comments”? If you didn’t have kids, would his disrespect for everyone but himself bother you at all? Since I don’t have kids, am I supposed to be okay with […]
This is definitely my favorite semester of teaching so far in my career. I’ve been looking forward to it for a while because it’s the first semester I’m teaching only courses for our department majors (not courses for the general population). I’m teaching 3 classes: Transitions to Advanced Mathematics (an intro-to-proofs course for math majors […]
At some point last year, I wiped my home desktop totally clean and did a fresh install of the operating system (Fedora 23 at the time, since upgraded to 24). I’ve been curious about Linux Mint for a few months now and I want to try it out. I tried and failed tonight. Over the […]
There’s Got To Be A Better Way Late last semester I had a bit of an epiphany. I had no good answer to the question “Why am I using printed lecture notes during class?” In my head, I started to think about my ideal replacement for paper lecture notes. For some parts of some classes […]
This summer I set up my own server at home. I did a LOT of research and reading about becoming a sysadmin (or a mini-sysadmin), and I’m still doing a lot of reading and research. The number one thing I’ve learned, though, is that the internet is still a scary place. Reading system logs I […]
When I upgraded from Fedora 23 to Fedora 24, Dropbox stopped syncing properly (on both my work desktop and my home desktop). When I did a clean install of Fedora 24 on a new laptop and a “clean” install of Dropbox using the command line instructions on Dropbox’s website, I experienced arguably worse issues. I […]
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